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happy New Year, typophiles!
I am glad to present a new Osnova family, sans serif workhorse.

Osnova supports slavic Cyrillic (belarusian, bulgarian, macedonian, russian, serbian and ukrainian), Latin for western, baltic, central and eastern european languages, and also monotonic Greek codepages.

the font has six weights from thin to heavy with small caps, old style and tabular figures, some ligatures, alternatives and letter variations for three alphabets. italics preserves roman glyph shapes.

some of features are separated for using eg. in office software.


Osnova will be suited for both display and text use, for corporate identity and signage as well as for publishing and editorial design, and even for navigation design.

Osnova was presented for first time on Rutenia 2010 type-festival in Kyiv. please look to example of usage by 3z studio.
the typeface is named after the first ukrainian cultural magazine Osnova (1861–1862).
Osnova@myfonts: http://new.myfonts.com/search/osnova/fonts/
2 Jan 2011 — 4:55pm
Very nice.
Congratulation!
2 Jan 2011 — 6:42pm
Very good! It's especially consistent, with Latin, Greek and Cyrillic sharing a common design but keeping their nuances.
3 Jan 2011 — 7:27am
thank you, Dusan! thank you, Igor!
3 Jan 2011 — 8:49am
I'm interested by the greater length of descenders than ascenders.
What is your thinking behind this, in all three scripts?
Also, I find the ear of the Latin "g" to be idiosyncratic (nothing wrong with that!) -- what would you consider to be correspondingly idiosyncratic glyphs in the other two scripts?
3 Jan 2011 — 10:35am
hi Nick,
ascenders and descenders have equal lengths except of -t-, -φ- -ψ- and -ф-. it can be idiosyncratic thing, like straight tail of -б- or connections of diagonals and main stem in -и-
9 Jan 2011 — 2:44am
Osnova as font of the last week of 2010
http://www.typo.cz/en/font-of-the-week/?polozka=793
9 Jan 2011 — 8:12am
Nice Font! Congratulations!!!
10 Jan 2011 — 7:34am
thank you, Lasko!
25 Mar 2012 — 4:55am
I'd really like to use this font. Where could I find a download for a University Project
25 Mar 2012 — 8:21am
Circabout here: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/andrijtype/osnova-pro/